Grantmaking Program
Foundation grantmaking on long-term care, Medicare-Medicaid integration, Medicare health and social supports, and multisector plans for aging, including data-driven research and work centring the lived experience of older adults from underrepresented communities.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award range is published for applicants. Listed past awards range widely, from roughly $30,000 to several million dollars, but these are historical grants rather than an advertised band — do not treat them as a guide.
- Timing
- By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No application deadlines are listed; the foundation appears to work through invited grantmaking rather than open calls.
- Who can apply
- Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- No open call or published eligibility criteria; awards go to organizations and research institutions the foundation invites, so a social work researcher would need an existing relationship or an institutional partner already in the portfolio. Contact the foundation before assuming a route in.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- long-term services and supports · medicare-medicaid integration · aging policy · lived experience · health and social care integration
- Apply at
- https://www.thescanfoundation.org/what-we-do/grantmaking/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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